The lawsuit against the Texans accuses the team and some of its employees of having been told or being aware of Watson’s troubling behavior The Houston Texans had been told that their former quarterback Deshaun Watson was sexually assaulting and harassing women during massage sessions, but instead of trying to stop him, the team provided…
In March 2021, Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Anita Baker called upon fans with the unusual request to refrain from purchasing or streaming her music on digital platforms, citing her battle with her former label over the ownership of her masters. Six months later, she took to her social media page, informing her supporters that all was…
The teenagers were reportedly celebrating the end of mid-year exams, a local DJ’s birthday and the relaxing of some of the last COVID-19 restrictions in South Africa, which was announced earlier in the week South African authorities were seeking answers Monday, a day after 21 underage teenagers partying after the end of school exams died…
A Texas nurse is suing the hospital she claims caused her depression and anxiety because of an onslaught of racism and harassment on the job. Jazzalynn McMurrin, 43, claims in a federal civil rights employment discrimination lawsuit her bosses singled her out because she was Black. McMurrin, a registered nurse, is suing her former employer,…
Randy Cox is shown during the video of his arrest. | Source: New Haven Police Department Three police officers in New Haven, Connecticut, have been placed on paid leave while Connecticut State Police investigate an incident that sounds eerily similar to that of Freddie Gray. On Juneteenth, 36-year-old Black man Richard “Randy” Cox was arrested…
OPINION: Anti-Trump conservatives can’t agree with Trump on everything but the deadly insurrection all while still supporting policies that harm Black and brown people and believe their hands are clean. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Some Republicans do not support Trump. Some…
As their actions have demonstrated, Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle are all about their independence from expectation. The May 2018 royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was a major social event for the Who’s Who of the political and entertainment elite. One guest, media icon Oprah Winfrey, barely knew the couple yet…
Fans are falling over laughing at Tracee Ellis Ross, who recently attended England’s Glastonbury Festival over the weekend. The comedic actress showed up equipped and ready to spend hours in the sun watching today’s iconic artists perform on stage, including her mother, Diana Ross. On Sunday, June 26, the former fashion model shared an Instagram…
Police Lt. Germain Dearlove told local news media that the shooting was the “result of a dispute in the parking lot.” ATLANTA (AP) — A man was killed and two others were injured, including rap star, Ludacris’ manager, in a parking lot shooting in an upscale neighborhood north of downtown Atlanta on Sunday night. The…
Source: Yuichiro Chino / Getty The emergence of robots has some computer scientists worried that artificial intelligence is learning how to be racist and sexist. In a new study, a team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology found that robots were producing harmful and offensive biases, arriving at sexist and racist conclusions in…
